Over the years, after talking with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, artists and creatives, almost every success story we’ve heard has been filled with stories of failure. Unfortunately, in our view the media rarely covers these parts of the story – instead we often read summaries that make it seem like success happened “overnight.” However, what we’ve learned in our conversations with so many successful folks is that failure is core ingredient in the recipe for future success. Below, we’ve shared some fascinating stories of failure from folks who have ultimately found great success.

Jacquelyn Phillips

Allow me to introduce my biggest accomplishment and my biggest most expensive failure to date. I’m not yet 40, so there may be another one if I get another wild hair. I wrote, designed, self-published, recorded and promoted my inspirational memoir. I have never been more proud of something I have produced beyond my son- he’s definitely number one. I wrote the book in 18 months and finished writing it at the beginning of covid, when everyone was sent home and the world was put on pause. Read more>>

Andranise Baxter

From my blog post: https://legallylocd.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/every-delay-is-in-your-favor/ I write this blog after spending last weekend celebrating my accomplishment of passing the California Bar, and being sworn in as an attorney in the state of California. This is a huge deal as only 34.5% of examinees passed the February 2017 Bar Exam. Read more>>

Boe Washington

Failure is only failure if you have not learned from the situation or experience. In 2021, I took a leap of faith and opened my own Sports Performance Training Facility. Athlete Depot, the brick and mortar, was the hottest training facility until March of 2022. I closed the doors at the peak of my endeavor. I failed to master the balance of family and business. Athlete Depot took me away from my family. The time and effort that it took to run and operate a 6000 square foot facility was not worth losing the very reason I sacrificed. So, after my two best months I closed the doors to focus on family. Read more>>